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Chipmaker Nvidia spoke about a new ‘mobile super chip’, claiming that they’re making console-quality graphics available on mobile devices. The company’s chief executive, Jen-Hsun Huang, told audiences at a CES keynote that the Nvidia Tegra X1 is going to be twice as powerful as 2014’s Tegra K1, and is built on the same architecture that is used in desktop GPUs. It features a 256-core GPU on top of an 8-core ARM-based central processing unit, making a teraflop of power. If those terms mean nothing to you, it basically means that literally any application that relies on Maxwell architecture will run on the Tegra X1, and is reliably powerful and energy efficient.

Huang said that, because of this, the chip can bring PC-grade graphics to devices such as tablets, showing off and Unreal Engine 4 demo running on the X1. That’s pretty impressive., with Qualcomm snapdragon currently in the lead for androids, and Apple using their own A8 chips.